More rain in Mumbai.

Mumbai has indeed tried very hard to not be overpowered by the rains yet again. We had traffic snarls again, but on wider roads. We had water logging again, but the water drained away from the main roads very fast too. Unfortunately the road widening process required many trees to be hacked, and the ones that survived clung on to earth with weak roots. No wonder we had so many trees crashing all over the city. The news channels, as always, hyped up the whole situation creating more panic than caution. Can we expect all the rain water to go straight into the sea? There are parts in this city that are high, there are parts that are low – there are inevitably going to be regions which will be waterlogged! During the short dry phase we had today, basket-happy aunties flocked the supermarkets and groceries soon went out of stock. I think the people of Mumbai are growing stonger as a race and may soon evolve as hardened, wiser citizens of the world.

My advice to you is DO not watch drama-hungry news channels. They are pure evil. They telecast and retelecast the same scenes for days. You never know, maybe you’re watching a video clip from last year too. Open your windows, look towards the sky and judge the situation yourself. Be prepared to face a flood, but be prepared to have a normal monsoon too. The latter might be difficult after all the media histrionics.

lol.. I was not blogging on the rains coz I was really scared about jinxing it again. And now it has rained all day yesterday and today!! Blogging about heavy rains, jinxes rains altogether!!
Anyway.. the TV Channels show all the hype coz people want to see it. And the Channel which doesn’t show this exaggeration is left behind in the TRP Race. And all this results in house arrests for common people all over mumbai!!

@ Santhosh
Thank you! :-)It gets very depressing watching news channels during the rains. Whats worse is they show clips from the day late into the evening or even at night! Like we can’t see its night-time already and the rains have stopped! Also those fake-sms votes, like we don’t know its all rigged. Who would waste a buck over the news channels!

@ Pragni
Thats good, isn’t it Pragni. We can be the new weather forecasters. When it rains heavily, you say alrighty its not going to rain now anymore – because I’m going to be blogging about the rains! ;-)